A does not make any sense to me i hope this helps
The correct answer is <span>b methodically purging potential rivals
In these purges millions of people died. Many of them would just disappear over night while other would be sent to Siberia into Gulags or to work until they die in mines and similar projects. He would even remove them from history by removing them from pictures and destroying everything they ever had or wrote or built.</span>
The common people of France constitutes a complete nation within itself and had no need of the dead weight of the two other orders, the first and second estate of the clergy and aristocracy.
